Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03294733
The Relationship Between Age and Carpal Tunnel Size
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 100 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Investigators hypothesis is that as human age increases, the size of the carpal tunnel decreases.
Detailed description
Participants will be taken to a hand examination room where a portable ultrasound (US) machine is present. A previously determined wrist will be examined for each of the participants. The US will be used to obtain measurements of the subjects carpal tunnel and median nerve at multiple levels in order to define its size.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Ultrasound | This ultrasound machine is owned by the department of orthopaedic surgery and is capable of up to 15 MHz image definition with its linear transducer |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-05-22
- Primary completion
- 2020-02-01
- Completion
- 2020-02-01
- First posted
- 2017-09-27
- Last updated
- 2020-02-26
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03294733. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.